Posts by Chris Parker

If Continuent Support was depicted as a cartoon character, who would you choose? I know who I would choose...I’ll give you a clue...Very Fast...Beep Beep…

In this blog we will explore Continuent Support...What we do, how we do it and the tools available to the customer that make all that happen at lightning speed.

On August 20th, 2020 we released v6.1.6 of our Tungsten Clustering and Tungsten Replicator products. On August 17th, 2021, we released v6.1.14. In this blog we take a look back over the last 12 months and highlight some of our key updates and fixes.

This blog was written in response to a question about the differences between a 3-node MySQL cluster and a 2-node-plus-a-witness MySQL cluster for MySQL high availability (HA).

Following on from our recent newsletter and the message from Eero Teerikorpi, Founder and CEO, in this blog I will set out the outline and plan for the work we are currently undertaking to make a number of changes within the terminology used in our product and communications.

On Monday April 27th, MySQL released a much anticipated patch release 8.0.20. Along with many bug fixes and improvements, a new property was introduced - binlog-transaction-compression. During our own testing we have discovered an incompatibility with this property. Read on for more information.

Our colleague Chris Parker covers a few of the approaches he found that made the transition of working in an office to working from home easier for him (something that a lot of us experience at the moment). He also takes a look at the technical side and what we at Continuent use to conduct our day to day business and Keep the Lights on. Including a Great Bake Off!

Over the past few days we have been working with a number of customers on the best way to handle Triggers within their MySQL environment when combined with Tungsten Replicator. This new blog dives head first into the minefield of Triggers and Replication.

Discover the new Continuent Tungsten Replicator (AMI) - the most advanced & flexible replication engine for MySQL, MariaDB & Percona Server, including Amazon RDS MySQL and Amazon Aurora.

When it comes to that little piece of software with a $0 price tag, just take a moment and ask yourself if it really is going to be free.  Yes, there are many perfectly valid use cases for using OSS software, but ensure you fully understand the risks and potential business imapact from an outage first.

In this blog post, we explore the correct way to implement bi-directional Tungsten Replication between AWS Aurora and Tungsten Clustering for MySQL databases.

We are announcing a revised policy, that we think is much easier to understand and provides more stability and assurances that our customers are operating with a fully supported release.

In this blog post we discuss importing CSV data into a Tungsten Cluster.